THE RESOLUTION OF THIS PROBLEM IN THIS POST IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO SYSTEMS RUNNING ARECA RAID CONTROLLERS BUT MAY APPLY TO OTHER SYSTEMS REQUIRING DISK RELATED DRIVERS. Upon booting a server after a CentOS kernel upgrade it was no longer able to boot.  The update was specifically from kernel 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 to 3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64 but these details have nothing […]